STSF 0.4 Release Announcement
The STSF team announces the 0.4 release of the Standard Type
Services Framework (STSF.)
STSF is a Sun Microsystems sponsored open source project available under
the BSD-based license and hosted on stsf.sourceforge.net.
STSF is a text imaging and font handling framework for application
developers. The core of STSF is portable across different platforms
and graphic systems.
STSF also includes a full implementation of the new text imaging
and font handling framework for the X Window System.
STSF consists of:
Rendering-system independent framework (ST)
X11 server extension (XST)
X11 client library (libXst)
New features in this release include:
Glyph vector API
STSF/Xft bridge
Local library mode
Glyph vector API adds the raw text output functionality to STSF.
Glyph vectors are arrays of positioned glyphs created by
user applications. STSF can render glyph vectors in one
function call without doing any text layout, pre- or post-processing.
Glyph vectors are very efficient and fast text output API.
STSF/Xft bridge implements Xft API on top of STSF glyph
vector APIs. The goal of STSF/Xft bridge is easy integration
of STSF with toolkits and environment that use Pango/Xft technology.
STSF/Xft bridge is implemented as 100% compatible drop-in replacement
for the Xft2 library. All applications linked with libXft.so will
be able to take advantage of STSF features.
While the preferred way to run X11 STSF applications is to use
an X server that supports STSF protocol, some X servers might
not support it. X11 STSF applications can still use these legacy
X servers by utilizing STSF local library mode when all rendering
is performed on the X11 client side and the X11 client communicates
with the X11 servers using the core X protocol.
At this time STSF compiles on Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD platforms.
For build instruction and system requirements consult the docs/INSTALL
file in the ST distribution.
The following files are available for download from the sourceforge.net
project page:
STSFXft-Linux-0.4.tgz
STSF/Xft bridge binary compiled for RH Linux 8.0
XFreeST-4.2.0-FreeBSD-0.4.tgz
XST binary patch for FreeBSD 4.x XFree86 4.2.0
XFreeST-4.2.0-Linux-0.4.tgz
XST binary patch for RH Linux 8.0 XFree86 4.2.0
st-0.4-with-xft-bridge.src.tgz
ST source tree with STSF/Xft bridge
st-0.4.pkg.i386.tgz
FreeBSD 4.x ST package
st-0.4.src.tgz
ST source tree without STSF/Xft bridge
xst-user-guide.pdf
XST User Guide
xstlib.pdf
libXst Reference
xstproto.pdf
X11 ST Protocol Reference
XFreeST-0.4.tbz2
A snapshot of our XFree86 4.2.0+ tree with XST source code
stsf.pdf
STSF Reference
March 28, 2003
The STSF team.
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Alexander Gelfenbain, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+1 (408) 635-0612
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